The Cobra & the Concubine

Badra sought refuge in the Sahara, but there is no true escape from the sheikh who stole her childhood. The villain proved she aroused a passion in men that meant only pain--and neither his death nor protection by her rescuers, the Khamsin changed that. Badra can no more forget it than one Khamsin's burning sapphire eyes. Kenneth Tristan, heir to the duke of Caldwell, rode with the Khamsin since his English family's slaughter. Known as Khepri, the Cobra, he grew up in Egypt. He loved this land, yet it is all sand in the wind, nothing, for he cannot touch the woman he loves, cannot save her from the past. He will sacrifice everything to make her whole. And until he does, they would be just...THE COBRA & THE CONCUBINE